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For Week Ending July 10, 2026 This week has been a seismic period for the independent publishing landscape, marked by significant shifts in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) royalty structure, a heated public debate surrounding book piracy, and the unsettling emergence of AI-generated content infringing on authors’ work. Beyond th
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The history of human expression is increasingly written in code, yet the guardians of that history warn that we are on the precipice of a "digital dark age." Frank Cifaldi, the founder of the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF), recently reignited a fierce industry-wide debate by asserting that piracy remains the only effective method fo
